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December 31, 2013

We're at the very tail end of the year, and because I'm completely susceptible to peer pressure, behold! A list of this year's most popular recipes, complete with gleaming photographs. It's been a challenging year, and I'm grateful to every person who visits Being a Bear and helps to remind me why I write. Your favorite recipes of the year were:

December 25, 2013

Let's talk for a minute about what the holidays are like for an introvert.Remember the bleak hellscape from the Terminator movies? The burned-out post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland carpeted with ash and human bones? The one where, just as you think you're starting to understand the horror of this dark new world, a metal foot crushes down on the human skull you were just looking at, and you look up into the cold red gaze of a killer robot?Yeah. It's kind of like that.But with eggnog.

December 24, 2013

Are you exhausted yet? Are you cranky? Are you staring at two visually identical gift cards and wondering which is the $25 you received from your third cousin yesterday, and which is the $100 you're supposed to give to your brother?